He rolled his eyes. "First, my Dad's Korean and my mom was Swedish. Second, I totally suck at math. I don't like cuckoo clocks or skiing or fancy chocolate either." I sputtered a laugh. "I think that's Swiss.
Last night I dreamt that somebody loved me.
No hope, no harm; just another false alarm.
The steward, according to custom, had stopped all the clocks. This, in the language of Narouz, said "Your stay with us is so brief, let us not be reminded of the flight of the hours."
I can't start my day without hearing 'Waiting On the World to Change' by John Mayer. It's my alarm clock and my favorite song.
I wake up every morning to 'Take a Chance on Me' as my iPhone alarm - it really gets you going.
The canary bird in the coal mine theory of the arts: artists should be treasured as alarm systems.
When I first heard Lady Gaga's 'Born This Way,' I looked out the window for the car alarm going off.
The history books will remember the Chinese doctors who sounded the alarm about COVID-19.
Prior to the institutionalization of standard time, clocks were set using local meridians or local mean time, and they varied widely.
Four hundred years is but a moment in 10,000 years. Time is curved, time is braided. Throw out your clocks.
Time limits are fictional. Losing all sense of time is actually the way to reality. We use clocks and calendars for convenience sake, not because that kind of time is real.
I'm terrified of missing my call time. I'll check my alarm several times before I fall asleep.
The American people, I am convinced, really detest free speech. At the slightest alarm they are ready and eager to put it down.
If the term discussion has always seemed to me to imply mild warnings of wasted time, workshop sets off a clangorous alarm.
I think that in the future, clocks won't say three o'clock anymore. They'll just get right to the point and rename three o'clock 'Pepsi.
I feel like music does have a role to play in waking people up; it can be an alarm clock or it can be a lullaby.
A campaign gives you focus. You wake up to a different hotel alarm clock every day, but you know your mission.
I think that in the future, clocks won't say three o'clock anymore. They'll just get right to the point and rename three o'clock 'Pepsi.'
The smoke alarm went off in the hallway upstairs, either to let us know the battery had just died or because the house was on fire.
I have an impulse to write all over the orange walls- I need an alphabet of endings ripped out of books, of hands pulled off of clocks, of cold stones, of shoes filled with nothing but wind.
To be alive is to be afraid, and much to our advantage in many cases, since alarm often preserves us from danger.
There is no transcendent creator in animism, no god who set the clocks ticking and decides which ones to fix when they falter; nothing exists outside of nature. In other words, my philosophy does not require that I believe in something I cannot experience directly.
The queen!" someone shouted in alarm, and the King erupted like a wild animal caught in a snare.
Do not give way to useless alarm; though it is right to be prepared for the worst, there is no occasion to look on it as certain.
I hate waking up every morning to my alarm. I always bang my head on the steering wheel.
If you're having trouble waking up for fajr, set your alarm to play Quran. It works!
I've always been fascinated by the Chinese. This goes a long way back to my childhood. The Chinese invented money, movable type, clocks, and built the largest ships in the history of the world.
Smoking cigarettes seems to alarm peace activists much more than voting for Reagan does.
I don't need an alarm clock to wake up in the morning. Akshay snores so loudly that I'm usually awake the entire night!
That new technologies and techniques would be forthcoming was a fundamental article of Christian faith. Hence, no bishops or theologians denounced clocks or sailing ships-although both were condemned on religious grounds in various non-Western societies.
We are part of a symbiotic relationship with something which disguises itself as an extra-terrestrial invasion so as not to alarm us.
The wonder is not that the world is so easily governed, but that so small a number of persons will suffice for the purpose. There are dead weights in political and legislative bodies as in clocks, and hundreds answer as pulleys who would never do for politicians.
Ronald Reagan used to alarm his Soviet counterparts by saying that surely they'd both unite against an invasion from Mars.
I'm like a fire hose when the alarm goes off in a battle against a woman. Don't ever count me out.
Our brains are seventy-year clocks. The Angel of Life winds them up once for all, then closes the case, and gives the key into the hand of the Angel of the Resurrection.
Here in the UK the audience immediately reacts and they get the fact that: "What would be the most annoying thing in the world?" A Chesney Hawkes alarm clock!
The first thing we did was change all the clocks so that her siblings thought it was bedtime, then put them to bed ignoring their plaintive protests that they were not tired. They wept themselves to sleep soon enough.
Clocks slay time... time is dead as long as it is being clicked off by little wheels; only when the clock stops does time come to life.
In the end, we all want a wife. But the home has become increasingly invaded by the ethos of work, work, work, with twin sets of external clocks imposed on a household's natural rhythms.
And the vagueness of his alarm added to its terrors; when once you have taken the Impossible into your calculations its possibilities become practically limitless.
We've already seen digital picture frames pre-loaded with viruses; I'm not eager to have my refrigerator hacked or my alarm clock turned against me.
The seams, the laminae between the various worlds the past present and future as well as the living and the nonliving may not be as distinct and clear-cut as we have been taught or as our somewhat arbitrary clocks and calendars have led us to believe.
My mental hands were empty, and I felt I must do something as a counterirritant or antibody to my hysterical alarm at getting married at the age of 43.
Birthday Alarm was a very simple site based on being reminded of your friends' birthdays.
I don't use an alarm, though sometimes Alexa wakes me, especially if I have to get up at a certain time.
An alarm goes off on my phone every two hours alerting me that it's time to eat.
Ronald Reagan used to alarm other constituencies by speaking freely about the End Times foreshadowed in the Bible.
It doesn't set off any alarm bells. As is typical with T. Rowe, no transition comes about abruptly; they tend to be planned pretty well.
Clocks will go as they are set, but man, irregular man, is never constant, never certain.
Time - whether you are burning it up or falling in love or spreading it out thin in a dentist's waiting room - is a commodity that cannot be weighed out and measured by clocks.
The definition of a limit is essentially his [Cauchy's] creation and is as much of a miracle as those fantastic Swiss clocks of the period in which hundreds of gleaming cogs are made to celebrate not only the time and date but the phases of the moon.
Literature is a form of permanent insurrection. Its mission is to arouse, to disturb, to alarm, to keep men in a constant state of dissatisfaction with themselves.
Every week I have a disaster in my kitchen. The fire alarm goes off repeatedly. But it doesn't stop me being adventurous.
Modern man threw a brick through his own window in order to sell himself a burglar alarm.
Try as I might, I cannot fall asleep before 2am. I sometimes try, putting tea towels over the clocks and forcing myselt to go to bed at 12.30am. I never win.
I got a smoke alarm at home, but really it's more like a 9-volt-battery-slowly-drainer.
(Antique clocks) need servicing just like your automobile or anything else. They're mechanical, and about every 10 years you should have them cleaned. That's the way they last forever.
To him whose elastic and vigorous thought keeps pace with the sun, the day is a perpetual morning. It matters not what the clocks say or the attitudes and labors of men. Morning is when I am awake and there is a dawn in me.
Very often adverse criticism goes to craft, and that sounds an alarm to which attention should be paid.
For the modern physicist, reality is the whole thing, past and future joined in a single history. The sensation of now is just that, a sensation, and different for everyone. Instead of one master clock, we have clocks in multitudes.
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